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jsoup News Bugs Discussion Download API Reference Cookbook Try jsoup jsoup » jsoup: Java HTML Parser jsoup: Java HTML Parser jsoup is a Java library that simplifies working with real-world HTML and XML. It offers an easy-to-use API for URL fetching, data parsing, extraction, and manipulation using DOM API methods, CSS, and xpath selectors. jsoup implements the WHATWG HTML5 specification, and parses HTML to the same DOM as modern browsers. scrape and parse HTML from a URL, file, or string find and extract data, using DOM traversal or CSS selectors manipulate the HTML elements, attributes, and text clean user-submitted content against a safelist, to prevent XSS attacks output tidy HTML jsoup is designed to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup; jsoup will create a sensible parse tree. Example Fetch the Wikipedia homepage, parse it to a DOM, and select the headlines from the In the news section into a list of Elements ( online sample , full source ): Document doc = Jsoup.connect("https://en.wikipedia.org/").get(); log(doc.title()); Elements newsHeadlines = doc.select("#mp-itn b a"); for (Element headline : newsHeadlines) { log("%s\n\t%s", headline.attr("title"), headline.absUrl("href")); } Open source jsoup is an open source project distributed under the liberal MIT license . The source code is available at GitHub . Getting started Download the jsoup jar (version 1.17.2 ) Read the cookbook introduction Enjoy! Development and support If you have any questions on how to use jsoup, or have ideas for future development, please get in touch via one of the discussion methods . If you find any issues, please file a bug after checking for duplicates. The colophon talks about the history of and tools used to build jsoup. Development of jsoup happens on GitHub . There you can see the latest changes , and get the source to build an unreleased version . Status jsoup is in general release. Cookbook Introduction Parsing and traversing a Document Input Parse a document from a String Parsing a body fragment Load a Document from a URL Load a Document from a File Extracting data Use DOM methods to navigate a document Use CSS selectors to find elements Use XPath selectors to find elements and nodes Extract attributes, text, and HTML from elements Working with relative and absolute URLs Example program: list links Modifying data Set attribute values Set the HTML of an element Setting the text content of elements Cleaning HTML Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS) jsoup HTML parser © 2009 - 2023 Jonathan...